Bug#537207: lintian: [checks/description] Wrong length with some Unicode characters.
Package: lintian
Version: 2.2.13
Severity: normal
Hello again,
it is unfortunate that perl function ‘length’ does not match the screen size
with some Unicode characters:
$ perl -e 'print length(","),"\n"'
1
$ perl -e 'print length("‘"),"\n"'
3
$ perl -e 'print length("‘,"),"\n"'
4
This triggers false positives like “extended-description-line-too-long”.
Have a nice day,
-- Charles
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-2-powerpc64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20080103-7 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.45-2 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.14.25 Debian package development tools
ii file 4.26-1 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.17-4 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.22+b1 Perl interface to libapt-pkg
ii libipc-run-perl 0.80-2 Perl module for running processes
ii libparse-debianchan 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii libtimedate-perl 1.1600-9 Time and date functions for Perl
ii liburi-perl 1.35.dfsg.1-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii man-db 2.5.2-4 on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-sha 5.10.0-22 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none> (no description available)
ii libtext-template-perl 1.45-1 Text::Template perl module
ii man-db 2.5.2-4 on-line manual pager
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